On 22 Oct 2002, Barry Smoke wrote: > I wanted to ask the group about what they thought about an autoresponse > on a spamblocking e-mail account?
I've thought about it, but haven't done it. > but, the for the other 99% of blocked spam, would this autoresponse > create a massive mail loop, crashing our system, or would qmail handle > the bounces o.k.? I doubt it would create any real problems beyond the normal spam double bounces....though it would increase the number of bounces a few percentage points, of course. Do note that (if I didnt mention it in my previous messages..) with the spambox mods to qmail-scanner, it makes no check for valid recipients on spam-flagged mail. (ie, spam is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It gets delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and no failure message is sent to the sender.) Just drop |bouncesaying "Sorry, your message resembles SPAM and has been rejected. Please |examine the X-Spam-Status: headers in the included message for more information." into your spambox .qmail file... Or, if you wanted to create a more involved bounce message you could pipe the message through a script...that script could extract the X-Spam-Status header and insert it into the bounce reason....:) > What does everyone think? It's probably a reasonable idea, as long as (as you say) you don't mind the extra overhead and double bounces. You could even (this would probably be a good idea in your situation, Barry) include a whitelisted email address in the bounce where the person could send requests for help if they dont understand why they were bounced. (we could take this many steps further and used a VERP address for this....hmmm.) Good to hear it's working well for you Barry. ...david (ps: if anyone has any suggestions on how to do a qmail-local-esq valid-address verification, I'd love to hear about it. ie, it would check all of the possible valid-users sources and return an apropos error code. /etc/passwd, virtualdomains, /var/qmail/users, ~alias/.qmail*, be compatable with dot-forward and fastforward...) --- david raistrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.expita.com/nomime.html ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net emial is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4699841;7576301;v?http://www.sun.com/javavote _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
